The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores domestic and international issues, business, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
Coronavirus data • To 6am GMT January 13th 2022
The world this week
Beware the bossy state • State intervention is being transformed. That won’t make it any more effective
Party animal • With Boris Johnson clinging on as prime minister, Britain is in for a rough ride
Poor students • America’s educators have failed to learn from the safe opening of classrooms abroad
Standemonium • Central Asia will remain unstable, however many troops Russia sends
Stop inciting murder • The ruling party is unleashing forces it will not be able to control
A good idea, until it isn’t • Poorly understood cross-border capital flows pose a threat to stability
Letters
Steppe in the dark • ALMATY AND NUR-SULTAN
Refunding the police • NEW YORK
Diplomacy minus diplomats • WASHINGTON, DC
Filling the courts • WASHINGTON, DC
Classes cancelled • CHICAGO AND WASHINGTON, DC
Two tragedies, one explanation • PHILADELPHIA
City limits • AUSTIN
Death, taxes and a failing presidency • Joe Biden is a flawed politician in an impossible job
Silicon linings • BUENOS AIRES
Jair and balanced • SÃO PAULO
A puck in the teeth • Canada’s best ice-hockey players cannot go to the Olympics
Playing with fire • DELHI
Some like it otter • SINGAPORE
Thanks, but no thanks • COLOMBO
Djebacle • SYDNEY
Treading water • Despite its dominance, China does not have it all its way in the South China Sea
All change, bar one • Officials will have a nervous year, obsessed by sweeping leadership changes
One accident away from disaster • Lessons from a fatal Chinese collision with an American spy plane, 21 years ago
An EU-funded horror story • TRIPOLI
Make way • TUNIS
Happy Christmas, war is over? • NAIROBI
Wagner, worse than it sounds • DAKAR AND MOSCOW
Teetering at the summit • A crucial week of diplomacy yields no progress on Ukraine
Unfashionably gauche • PARIS
Swimming with the Yuletide • KYIV
Unclogging Europe • AMSTERDAM
Gas nightmares • A protracted energy crisis will trigger Europe’s neuroses
Breaking bad • A career of breaking rules, large and small, runs into crisis
It’s not cheap being green • Rows about the cost of energy are here to stay
What did you expect? • The prime minister, in his own way, is Britain’s most honest politician
The point of tipping • Does it make for better service? The evidence is mixed - and attitudes vary widely across the world
Move fast and heal things • As health care turns into a consumer product, a multi-trillion-dollar industry is being disrupted
What the Mittelstand wants • BERLIN
The new great game • HOUSTON
Of remote work and writing • The written word will flourish in the post-pandemic workplace
Creative seduction • TikTok is not silly. It is a serious disrupter
Super savers • HONG KONG
Atom and abroad • The Kazakh crisis sends a warning shot to buyers of nuclear fuel
Life after stimmy • WASHINGTON, DC
Aversion therapy • The new government hopes to cure Germans’ distaste for the stockmarket
Sexagenarians and the City • A fictional broker on the faster metabolism of finance
Taming tigers • HONG…